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From wine what sudden friendship springs!

John Gay

Fables (Part 2)

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Gay, John. "The Squire and his Cur." Fables. London: John Knapton, Paul Knapton, and T. Cox, 1738, pt. 2. 1738.

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Bannon, Steve. "Trump Strategist Stephen Bannon Says Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut'." Interviewed by Michael M. Grynbaum. The New York Times, 26 Jan. 2017.

I've been rich, and I've been poor. Rich is better.

Beatrice Kaufman

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Kaufman, Beatrice. Quoted in "The Post's New Yorker." Written by Leonard Lyons. The Washington Post, 12 May 1937, quote p. 13.

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Adams, John. Letter to Thomas Jefferson. 15 July 1817.

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Adams, John. "Adams to Jefferson - Quincy, July 15, 1817." The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams, edited by Lester J. Cappon. University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850, ch. 4.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, edited by Brian Harding. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 4.

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Bacon, Francis. "Of Adversity." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Adversity." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Burke, Edmund. A Letter to John Farr and John Harris, Esqs., Sheriffs of the City of Bristol, on the Affairs of America. London: J. Dodsley, 3 Apr. 1777.

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Burke, Edmund. "A Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol on the Affairs of America." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

Julia Margaret Cameron

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Cameron, Julia Margaret and Violet Hamilton. Annals of My Glass House: Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron. University of Washington Press, 1997.

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Popper, Karl. The Open Society and Its Enemies. Vol. 1, Routledge, 1995, notes to the chapters, ch. 7, note 4.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Jill Bennett

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Bennett, Jill. "Sayings of the Week." The Observer, 12 Sept. 1982.

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Pope John Paul II. Homily of John Paul II. Eucharistic Celebration, Apstolic Journey to the United States. 8 Oct. 1995, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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Monty Python's Life of Brian. Directed by Terry Jones, Handmade Films/Python (Monty) Pictures, 1979.

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Milton, John. "A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle." 29 Sept. 1634, Ludlow Castle, Ludlow, England, UK, line 410.

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Milton, John. "A Masque...Presented at Ludlow Castle ['Comus']." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, line 410.

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 1.

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Rudy. Directed by David Anspaugh, TriStar Pictures, 1993.

In this world I would rather live two days like a tiger, than two hundred years like a sheep.

Tipu Sultan

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Sultan, Tipu. Quoted in A View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tippoo Sultan, written by Alexander Beatson. W. Bulmer and Co., 1800, ch. 10.

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Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, ch. 4.

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Mill, John Stuart. "The Subjection of Women." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 4.

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The Notebook. Directed by Nick Cassavetes, Gran Via, 2004.

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Directed by John Ford, John Ford Productions, 1962.

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Chandler, Raymond. The Big Sleep. Alfred A. Knopf, 1939, ch. 3.